Indian jails suffer from 29.2 per cent overcrowding with the total prison population at a staggering 3,84,753 which is 0.034 per cent of the total population of the country. The home ministry last week reviewed the conditions of prisons and noted that most states have not been able to reduce

In its first review of the historic defeat of the Left Front government in West Bengal after 32 years, the CPI(M) has virtually accepted that withdrawal of support to the UPA-I government in 2008 allowed the anti-Left forces to come together “to attack the Left in Bengal — the strongest base of the Left in the country”.

In its first review of the historic defeat of the Left Front government in West Bengal after 32 years, the CPI(M) has virtually accepted

that withdrawal of support to the UPA-I government in 2008 allowed the anti-Left forces to come together “to attack the Left in Bengal — the

strongest base of the Left in the country”. The report raises the concern that the “loss” of 32 years of Left rule in West Bengal “can give rise

More than 100 districts will soon be officially declared as affected by Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in the country with the Centre planning to add 20 more districts to its present list of 83 LWE districts. The move follows numerous representations by state governments that the “Naxal problem exists in more areas” than previously thought and

The proposed Gorkhaland Autonomous Authority (GAA) seems to have hit a legal hurdle with the government putting its foot down firmly that no leeway will be given for unconstitutional demands.

The armed clashes between the security forces and Maoists have witnessed a decline in West Bengal with the newly-formed Mamata Banerjee government coming to power.

Two years into the anti-Naxalite action plan rolled out by the Union home ministry, the security forces are complaining of inferior technology and lack of infrastructure in camps set up in Maoist stro

The three latest incidents of Naxal violence where the Maoists blew up an anti-landmine vehicle and targeted the police and CRPF personnel has dipped the morale of the security personnel fighting the

With no fresh leads for investigation, the government is likely to put on hold the NIA case against US national and LeT operative David Coleman Headley and his accomplice, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused of plotting terror attacks in India. This would essentially mean that the officers involved in the investigation would be taken off the case and allowed to devote time to other cases, senior government sources said.

A blamegame has started within the Left as the Marxist citadel finally fell at the hands of its arch rival Trinamul Congress on Friday. The CPI(M) central leadership pinned the blame on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left Front government saying that the “mistakes’’ committed in Nandigram and Singur and other “local’’ factors led to the